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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Johnson Martins" <johnson_martins01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: johnsonmartin@mail.ru
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:14:03 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME

Goodday,
I Am DR JOHNSON MARTINS, in charge of Bills and Foreign Exchange Remittance
Department of international trust bank plc. I am writing you this letter to
ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity
in my department.We discovered an unclaimed sum of $35Million (Thirty five
Million Dollars) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer
(Hammond Joan)of 65, Edmonds, Washington USA, who was a petroleum/gas
consultant/contactor with the Nigeria National
Petroleum coporation who happens to be deceased during a business trip.

He died on board with the Swissair Flight 111 , which crashed into the
Atlantic off Nova Scotia in september 2nd 1998. The plane crash was in the
news.See links below for more detail informaion:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/9809/swissair.victims.list/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/08/swissair.02/
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9809/05/swissair.transcripts/

Since we got information about his death we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money. Unfortunately, neither the family nor
the relation has appeared to claim this money.We cannot release this money
unless somebody applies as the next of kin or relation to the deceased. Our
banking guidelines indicated that if such money remained unclaimed for a
period of eight (8) years, it would be transferred into the international
trust bankTreasury as unclaimed
fund.

Another officer and I in the department now decided to transfer this money
into your account as the next of kin or relation of the deceased for easy
collection since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go
back into the bank treasury as the unclaimed debt. Infact it is my friend
that advised me to urgently arrange to transfer out this money through
another foreign beneficiary outside the country.
We have decided to give you 30% of the total sum.
I will do my best to see that we conclude this transaction successfully on
time.

Please if you are interested send me an immediate mail so that I can explain
the details to you to understand everything about this business. write to
this email address(johnsonmartin@mail.ru)
Waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards.
DR JOHNSON MARTINS

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